At the age of 33, Ekow Eshun leaves a London that has never felt like home and travels to Ghana, in order to search for his roots. Along the way he reflects on others who have made the same journey, including W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, and Malcolm X. In Ghana, although Eshun still feels like an outsider, and ironically is considered "white," his quest for identity ultimately yields a painful truth—his ancestors, much like Ghana as a nation, actively collaborated in the slave trade.